{"id":625651,"date":"2026-05-05T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625651\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:25:08","slug":"phil-mickelson-to-miss-pga-championship-for-family-health-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625651\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Mickelson to miss PGA Championship for family health matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six-time major winner Phil Mickelson has withdrawn from next week’s PGA Championship because of “a personal health matter with his family”, organisers have said.<\/p>\n

The 55-year-old American also missed last month’s Masters,<\/a> saying at the time he would be out for an “extended period of time as my family continues to navigate a personal health matter”.<\/p>\n

Mickelson, winner of the PGA Championship in 2005 and 2021, had been listed among the 154-strong field released on Tuesday for the tournament at Aronimink Golf Club in Newton Square, Pennsylvania from 14-17 May.<\/p>\n

But his withdrawal was announced later in the day, with fellow American Max Homa replacing him.<\/p>\n

Mickelson also sat out the first four events of the 2026 LIV Golf season, at Riyadh, Adelaide, Hong Kong and Singapore. He also cited a “family health matter” when announcing his initial absence on 1 February.<\/p>\n

Although he returned to action in March at Steyn City in South Africa, where he finished tied for 48th place, he later announced his break from golf in early April.<\/p>\n

Mickelson’s 2021 PGA Championship victory<\/a> meant he became the oldest major champion at the age of 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six-time major winner Phil Mickelson has withdrawn from next week’s PGA Championship because of “a personal health matter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-625651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}